CA, CS, CMA : This update outlines critical compliance deadlines across FEMA, GST, Income Tax, Companies Act, and more for April 2026. It helps ...
Corporate Law : International workers from non-SSA countries cannot withdraw PF on exit. The article explains why age 58 remains the key condition...
Income Tax : The Central Government, in the Union Budget 2026, has proposed an important amendment concerning employee welfare funds. The objec...
Income Tax : The Finance Bill, 2026 updates Schedule XI to remove outdated contribution and investment limits. The changes bring income-tax rul...
Income Tax : The amendment replaces the fund-specific due date with the return-filing deadline for claiming deductions. Employers gain greater ...
Corporate Law : A six-month special scheme allows employers to enrol left-out employees and regularise EPF non-compliance with minimal penalties....
Corporate Law : Ministry of Labour launches EPF Enrolment Campaign 2025 (Nov 2025 - Apr 2026) to expand social security. Employers can regularize ...
Corporate Law : EPFO increases the auto-settlement limit for advance claims to ₹5 lakhs, enabling faster access to funds for members across vari...
Corporate Law : EPFO introduces easier PF transfer with revamped Form 13 and bulk UAN generation for employers (without immediate Aadhaar)....
Corporate Law : EPFO adds 15 banks for employer contributions, expanding to 32 banks. The move aims to enhance efficiency and reduce transactional...
Income Tax : The Tribunal examined disallowance made for delayed employee contributions under Section 143(1). It held that debatable issues can...
Corporate Law : Paragraph 27AA of the Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) Scheme could not be automatically imposed on establishments exempted under S...
Corporate Law : The issue was whether coconut falls under the fruit category for EPF applicability. The Court held it does, emphasizing liberal in...
Income Tax : The Supreme Court has taken up the controversy over delayed employees’ PF/ESI deposits, while the High Court upheld disallowance...
Income Tax : The assessee sought to contest an EPF/ESI disallowance arising only from CPC processing. ITAT ruled that issues from 143(1) must b...
Corporate Law : EPFO has approved acceptance of transgender identity certificates for name and gender corrections. The move strengthens inclusivit...
Corporate Law : The authority held that pension contributions wrongly paid for ineligible members must be recalculated with interest, transferred ...
Corporate Law : EPFO has confirmed that the Aadhaar–UAN seeding deadline will not be extended beyond 31 October 2025. Employers must ensure full...
Corporate Law : EPFO's campaign (Nov 2025–Apr 2026) allows employers to enroll employees missed from 2017 to 2025. Pay only employer's share and...
Corporate Law : EPFO introduces a revamped Electronic Challan-cum-Return (ECR) from September 2025 with system-based validations, revised filing o...
This is normally seen that most of the employees and workers not properly aware about how properly maintain his or her UAN and PF account. Also, they are operating this causally not understand the importance of its. But when they very need of it found them helpless and in very problematic situations. Some of basic […]
Retirement planning is not an easy task. It requires an organized approach to ensure that life post retirement for a person remains worry free for an individual. Since in our country, social security is conspicuous by absence for majority of people, it becomes very important for a person to prepare for retirement as early as […]
Until now, one of the best savings and investment option for a salaried person was investment in the employees’ provident fund (EPF) scheme. It inculcates the habit of compulsory savings with a relatively higher interest rate backed by government when compared to other similar investment options. It also provided tax-free income in the hands of […]
DCIT Vs Dee Development Engineers Ltd. (ITAT Delhi) The assessee company has not deposited the employees’ contribution within the due date which is prescribed under the said statute i.e. Provident Fund and ESIC. This issue is dealt by the Hon’ble Delhi High Court in case of CIT vs. M/s Bharat Hotels Ltd. 410 ITR 417 […]
In the intimation processed u/s 143(1) of Income Tax Act, 1961, the Centralize Processing Center makes addition of income as per the amount reported in certain clauses of Tax Audit Report. Assessee is left with no choice but to go for appeal with higher authorities. We have noticed that the disallowance includes along various other […]
FM increased the deposit threshold limit to Rs 5 lakh per annum in provident fund for which interest would continue to be tax-exempt, if there is no employer contribution. It was made clear that the threshold limit will not be enhanced in the cases where employer is contributing towards EPF.
The Lok Sabha has passed the Finance Bill, 2021 on March 23, 2021, with finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman introducing 127 amendments with a view to boost ease of doing business and easing compliance burden. Among the major changes is a tweak in the proposal to tax income on P.F. contribution above Rs. 2.50 lakhs in […]
Ministry of Labour & Employement (Government of India) Step 1: Visit www.epfindia.gov.in Step 2: Select ‘Our Services’ and click on For employees’ Step 3: Click on ‘Member UAN/ Online Services’ Step 4: Click on ‘Activate your UAN’ (located under ‘Important Links’ on the right-hand side) Step 5: Enter your basic details like UAN, Name, bate […]
Tax on income out of excess employer contribution to specified funds – Computation methodology prescribed The Finance Act 2020 introduced a new provision under the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act) by virtue of which employer contribution exceeding Rs. 7.5 lakhs p.a. (i.e. excess contribution) in aggregate to the following funds is now taxable in the […]
The undersigned is directed to say that timelines have been prescribed under the CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972 for each activity involved in the processing of a pension case and for payment of pension and gratuity to a retiring Government servant. As per this timeline, the process of verification of service and other preparatory work should be
